How can I find broken symlinks
Is there a way to find all symbolic links that don’t point anywere?
symlink
Going into a directory linked by a link
When I cd a link, my current path is prefixed with the link’s path, rather than the path of the directory the link links to.
E.g.
Converting relative path to absolute path without symbolic link
Is there a Unix command to get the absolute (and canonicalized) path from a relative path which may contain symbolic links?
How can I “relink” a lot of broken symlinks?
I have a directory tree which has a bunch of symbolic links to files under /home… however, I have moved /home to /mnt/home and need a way to “relink” all of the symlinks. Does such functionality exist or do I need to write a script to do so?
How do I prevent sed -i from destroying symlinks?
Why does sed -i executed on symlink destroys that link and replaces it with destination file? How to avoid this?
Get path of current script when executed through a symlink
I have a utility consisting of a couple of directories with some bash scripts and supporting files that will be deployed to several machines, possibly in a different directory on each machine. The scripts need to be able to reference paths relative to themselves, so I need to be able to get the path to the file that’s currently being executed.
What is a symbolic link made from? Understanding the structure of symlinks
I use Ubuntu 15.10 and I’m very new in Linux. After reading in Wikipedia what is a symbolic link in general, and after executing a symlink creation command in the Ubuntu Unix-bash terminal, I ought to better understand the structure of a symlink I worked with several times when creating (and “destroying”) Ubuntu learning environments.
ls content of a directory ignoring symlinks
I have a directory in which I would like to list all the content (files and sub directories) without showing the symbolic links. I am using GNU utilities on Linux. The ls version is 8.13.
Resolving symbolic links (pwd)
Say I do the following:
Understanding directory symlinks traversals and the parent directory
Let’s say you have directories /dir1 and /dir2/linked, where the latter is a symlink to the former.